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Shhh. This from Ad Age about blogs:
Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs.
Currently, the time employees spend reading non-work blogs is the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs
Of course, that’s only if you are reading blogs other than PJNet.org, which is, of course, directly related to the […]

So what’s the heartland saying about citizen journalism? Here is an article in the Joplin (Missouri) Globe headlined: A new way to tell the news: Blogs represent a return to community journalism
Within the story a mention is made of Orato, a quasi citizen journalism site based in Vancouver. It will be launched in November. Citizen […]

I am late to blogging this, but here is how Bill Keller’s memo Friday to his staff begins:
As you can imagine, I’ve done a lot of thinking — and a lot of listening — on the subject of what I should have done differently in handling our reporter’s entanglement in the White House leak investigation. […]

Lawrence Lessig, who founded the Creative Commons to enable open source content in ways that traditional copyright laws don’t, is now blogging and emailing a weekly explanation of the history of the Creative Commons and what it will mean to content producers and users. Here is Part I and Part II and Part III.
It […]

Here is a question asked in an online forum with Washington Post’s online executive editor Jim Brady:
When will citizen journalism be coming to washingtonpost.com?
Jim Brady: Can’t tell you when, but we’re working on a handful of other ways to engage users, and among them is allowing for submission of content from outside sources. But […]